Zone d'identification
Cote
Titre
Date(s)
- May–June 1982 (Création/Production)
Niveau de description
Étendue matérielle et support
1 newsletter (multi-page, printed text)
Zone du contexte
Nom du producteur
Dépôt
Histoire archivistique
Part of the IDAF archival collection on political repression and human rights in Southern Africa.
Source immédiate d'acquisition ou de transfert
South African History Archive (SAHA)
Zone du contenu et de la structure
Portée et contenu
This issue reports on the tightening of apartheid security laws following the Rabie Commission, including proposed new terrorism, subversion, and sabotage laws. It details intensified repression across South Africa and Namibia, mass detentions, psychological torture, political trials, and restrictions on the press. The issue also includes a major review of the South African Police, extensive political trial updates (including Barbara Hogan, Oscar Mpetha, and SWAPO guerrillas), and the arrest and detention of many students, trade unionists, and church workers. Notably, it reports hunger strikes and deaths in custody, and increasing international protest against detention conditions.
Évaluation, élimination et calendrier de conservation
Retained permanently for historical research on Southern African political repression and human rights violations.
Accroissements
No further accruals expected.
Mode de classement
Chronologically arranged in the IDAF Focus newsletter series.
Zone des conditions d'accès et d'utilisation
Conditions d'accès
Open for public and research access.
Conditions de reproduction
Reproduction allowed with proper citation of IDAF as source.
Langue des documents
anglais
Écriture des documents
Notes de langue et graphie
Caractéristiques matérielle et contraintes techniques
OCR scan of original printed newsletter; legible and complete.
Instruments de recherche
Instrument de recherche téléversé
Zone des sources complémentaires
Existence et lieu de conservation des originaux
Originals held by the South African History Archives.
Existence et lieu de conservation des copies
Digital copy available through the PWP projects and other Archives.
Unités de description associées
Issues 1–39, Rabie Commission reports, Police brutality records, SWAPO trial files, SAAWU labor repression reports.
Note de publication
Focus', Issue No. 40. International Defence and Aid Fund, May–June 1982.
Zone des notes
Note
A major issue analyzing security law changes, policing methods, press censorship, and psychological torture, including charts on killings by police and new trial developments.
Identifiant(s) alternatif(s)
Mots-clés
Mots-clés - Noms
- Barbara Hogan (Sujet)
- Alan Fine (Sujet)
- Neil Aggett (Sujet)
- Thozamile Gqweta (Sujet)
- Sam Kikine (Sujet)
- Pravin Gordhan (Sujet)
- Dean Farisani (Sujet)
- Guy Berger (Sujet)
- Devandiren Pillay (Sujet)
- Zwelakhe Sisulu (Sujet)
- Oscar Mpetha (Sujet)
- Johannes Shabangu (Sujet)
- David Moise (Sujet)
- Anthony Tsotsobe (Sujet)
- Thandi Modise (Sujet)
- Renee Roux (Sujet)
- Auret van Heerden (Sujet)
- Griffiths Mxenge (Sujet)
Mots-clés - Genre
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Identifiant du service d'archives
Règles et/ou conventions utilisées
ISAD(G): General International Standard Archival Description, Second Edition
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Dates de production, de révision, de suppression
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Note de l'archiviste
Extensive and powerful issue documenting systemic torture, newly proposed apartheid laws, trial escalation, and conditions of political prisoners across Southern Africa.